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Me: Billie Eilish has no flaws.
Billie: I used to really love Justin Bieber
Me: Billie Eilish has one flaw.
billie eilish and FINNEAS preforming, i love you 2022
Well what can I say? he hates himself.
My fem Human!bill design :))
It's in process but how do you fav it so far? Any creative suggestions ?
Billie looks so 🥰 cute
Shut up and dance with Dutch!
One thing I truly love about being an Entomology nerd, is nobody can ever get reasonably mad at me for not knowing what a bug is! There’s no way I can reasonably know every single bug in the world, that’s just not feasible!
And even better- that ALSO means I get to spend the REST OF MY LIFE learning about bugs! I get the joy of learning about new ones all the time, forever! It’s so awesome!! It also ALSO means I can easily divert my punk desire to better the world into insect conservation, which is super important for the earths continued existence!! And caring about little critters that most people find disgusting is frankly SUPER punk! I fucking love bugs!
Okay, so this is really cool! You have this phenomenon where some plants grow edible appendages to their seeds to entice ants to carry them underground where they can safely sprout. And then you have wasps which lay their eggs on the leaves, stems, and other parts of plants and trigger the growth of galls (swellings) which both feed and protect the wasp larvae until they reach maturity.
The boy who was watching the ants noticed they were taking wasp galls underground, too. Further exploration found that the wasp larvae were unharmed inside the galls; the only thing the ants had eaten were edible appendages similar to those on the seeds they collected. The wasp larvae stayed safe inside the ant nest, feeding on their galls, until it was time to emerge and head back out to the surface.
So it turns out that the edible portions of the galls have the same sorts of fatty acids as the edible parts of the seeds. And those fatty acids are also found in dead insects. Scientists think that the wasps evolved a way to make the galls they created mimic the edible portions of the seeds to get the ants to collect the galls. This isn't the only example of wasps making use of ants as caretakers for their young, but it's a really fascinating example thereof--especially if you consider ants evolved from wasps at least 100 million years ago.
THESE ARE MY FAVORITE!! I LOVE ACORN WEEVIL S!!!
Found today while gathering acorns (swamp white oak). How adorable is this? I love her little feet, and the way she pivots around her proboscis, fascinated by how far her head rotates… Curculio sp. (if anyone can ID to species, please add!)
